Professor Peter Rendell is director of the Cognition and Emotion Research Centre at Australian Catholic University. The centre conducts experimental psychology research in the field of cognitive and neuropsychology. He has a focus on cognitive ageing with a particular interest in prospective memory (memory for future intentions such as keeping appointments and taking medication) and episodic future thinking (ability to imagine future events and show foresight). He is also interested in memory in various other groups including autism, chronic heart failure and substance users. In addition, he is currently investigating emotional processing and social cognition in older adults and various clinical groups.

Prospective memory impairment in former users of methamphetamine, in Psychopharmacology (print version)

2008

The added value of an applied perspective in cognitive gerontology, in Handbook of cognitive aging: Interdisciplinary perspectives

Emotion regulation in schizophrenia: Affective, social and clinical correlates of suppression and reappraisal, in Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Prospective-memory functioning is affected during pregnancy and postpartum, in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Recognition of disgust is selectively preserved in Alzheimer's Disease, in Neuropsychologia

Prospective memory in schizophrenia: The impact of varying retrospective-memory load, in Neuropsychology, Development and Cognition. Section A: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (print version)

The puzzle of inconsistent age-related declines in prospective memory: A multiprocess explanation, in Prospective memory: Cognitive, neuroscience, developmental, and applied

Empathy, social functioning and schizotypy, in Psychiatry Research

2007

Age-related effects in prospective memory are modulated by ongoing task complexity and relation to target cue, in Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition

A review of the impact of pregnancy on memory function, in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Prospective memory in multiple sclerosis, in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Prospective memory in schizophrenia: Primary or secondary impairment?, in Schizophrenia Research (print version)

2006

Spaced retrieval technique improves prospective memory among healthy adults and adults with possible early dementia, in Proceedings of the 5th National Conference for Emerging Researchers in Ageing: research informing positive outcomes in older persons

2005

Memory for proper names in old age: A disproportionate impairment?, in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology